Cast & Caper: Cuthbert's Castle

IMPORTANT: Strongly recommended to run in the Itch App, it may be flagged by Windows Defender.

Cast & Caper: Cutherberts Castle is an oldschool wireframe dungeon crawler with some modern twists. It features MMORPG style party combat and an optional idle management minigame that runs in the background.

Fair warning: What this game lacks in graphics, it tries to make up for in mechanical depth. Please RTFM (read the fantastic manual), for an explanation on what's going on, the game will not hold your hand and teach you.

Controls:

The game is keyboard only.

• Movement: WASD & Numpad
•  Menu navigation: Arrow keys, Enter to select and Escape to go back.
• The game now saves automatically when you enter a safezone, you can safely alt-f4 or click the X to close the game after this and you should be able to load back from the main menu

Additional personal restriction:

As an additional restriction, I chose to write the game in pure C with no libraries. It uses a custom WindowGDI renderer (for that true oldschool experience), that can only handle lines, primitive shapes and hand-written bitmaps. All sprites were manually written out into hex.

Having spoken to some of the older chaps in the DungeonCrawlers.org discord, I really wanted to learn more about what it might have been like to develop a game perhaps as early as ~1980.

Source code provided for your interest, without instruction or license here:

https://github.com/AnalyticalGoose/Cast-Caper

Known Issues:

• There are some graphical bugs, specifically around the application of ailments / status effects. These are purely visual and do not affect gameplay.

Asset Disclosure:

- 1-Bit Monster sprites are from Hexany's Monster Menagerie
- Font by Daniel Hepper - Here